Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-10-22
NEWS AND NOTES.

Egypt's cotton crop will be an aver
age one.
Prince de Talleyrand. of France, is
doing the United States.
At Leipsic.John Mere, the anarchist,
was sentenced to fifteen years imprison-
ment.
In the Bulgarian parliamentary cleo
tons the result is favorable to the
Government.
{ Mr.. Powderly received nearly $4,000
letters, and answered 10000 of them
within the past year.
General Joseph johnson has con
tributed 500 to the Leo Monument
fund of Richmond, Va.
Miss Mary L. Booth, of. Harpers
Bazaar, has just returned home from
tive months vacation in Europe.
Two french newspapers, the Steele
and Lanterne, have been prohibited
from circulating in Alsace-L
The total assessed value of railroad
property in Illinois is $66,571, 236, an
increase Of s3.590,d0o over last year.
Maria Edgewcrth's Essay on Irish
Bulls, has been advertised among works
recommended for an agricultural
library.
Pope Leo has intrusted all the ar
rangements in connection with his ;ub-
lice celebration to commission of four
Cardinals.
It is recalled that Horace Greeley
carried all the Sunday papers TO church,
and sat there and read until the service
was finished.
Mgr. Persico, the Papal Envoy to
ireland in a sermon at Dublin said he
was gratified at the devotion of the
Irish to the Pope.
An autograph letter from John Bright,
devoted to arbitration between nations,
was read at the meeting of Methodist
ministers in Chicago.
The Merchants & Miners Bank at
Iron Mountain, Mich, has closed. The
cashier is said to be in Canada with a
considerable sum of money.
A story comes from Baden-Raden
that Dom Pedro, Emperor of Brazil,
has announced that he will ahdicate on
account of impaired health.
Senator Voorhees, has been retained
by the defendants in the contest of Mil
lionaire De Pauw's will. There will
be some fine picking for the lawyers.
Reports from Toblach as to the con-
dition of the Grown Prince of Germany
are very disquieting, and much alarm
is felt in Berlin because Of his condition.
The State of Michigan is preparing
to send to Washington statue Of Lew
is Cass, to take its place AMONG the
large number now in position in Statu-
airy Hall at the Capitol
The failure is announced of the
Niobrara Land and Cattle Company,
incorporated at East ST. Louis, with
nominal assets of $25o,QoO, on which
20 to so per cent will be realized.
james r. Keene has been trading in
oil with luck on his side, Of late, and
already prophecies are made that he
will soon initiate Henry Willard by re-
suming his old place in Wall street.
The hunters and race-horses belong
ing to Lord Allensbury, who was re-
Gently warned off Newmarket heath by
the Jockey club for instructinga Jockey
to pull horse, will be sold Immediately.
Corn according to the Government
report, will yield 20 bushels per acre,
| wheat l1.6, oats %, barley 20, and rye
11.5. There is {, decline in the con
| dition of cotton, buckWheat. and pota-
| toes.
The Interstate Commerce Commits
sion is i'll Washington. A number of
/ decisions are soon to be delivered The
annual report of the commission will
suggest to Congress some notifications
of the law.
A colony of negroes is going to
Shasta, Cal, to settle on 1000 acres of
land above Shingletown. which has been
purchased for that purpose. The colo
nists will come under the leadership of a
minister named Petty.
According to the statistics the
average man throughout the civilized
world annually consumes 445 pounds
OF grain, 20 pounds of meat, 7 pounds
OF butter, and 20 pounds of sugar, of
the total value of IS IS.
William L. Miller, of Charleston, S.
| g., has two immense iron shells. said
to be the first two shots fired at Battery
Wagner at the beginning OF the war
| Ihe shells were never exploded; they
weigh 200 pounds each.
Col. A. Andrews, of San Francisco.
a millionaire pensioner of the Mexican
war, pays over his small monthly sti-
| pend to needy veteran who receives
no pension. Some other rich pensioners
should follow his example
Gen. Phil. Sheridan speaks of the So
called army Of the United States as a
very small one; but the real army, he
says, consists of 6O,0Oo.O0o OF people,
and if the people are satisfied with it
nobody has right to complain
Texas. papers say that the Rio Grande
is running SO low that it is only ankle
deep, and that it is expected to dry uo
altogether before winter The prospect
is contemplated with alarm by the fruit
raisers and vineyardists Of that country.
When lightning struck Baxter
Vaughan, of Strother, Mo-, it cut a hole
like a bullet hole in his hat, ran around
| the rim, then down his back clear to his
heels. taking off in its entire course a mar